St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-11
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.
resh Chit-Chat Compiled from '"'
pean Exchanges.

feSh Snlt-Chat Compiled Ai"'A
pean Exchanges.
In April Al $40 of the bone ana SIM"
of the British subjects left the unltea NM
dom, Of whom SO Ss2 went to the L hlteu S,"' N.,'
and will be lost to the empire. Brltlsh W. "
America gets 5,202. Australasia 2-''oo' anu Ia
other places 69l persons. Of all these peop''
England sllpplied 1912. Scotland 4, 1872, and Ire
land-which has not now 25 per cent more poo ,od.
ulatiOn than Scotland-19,0S6 In April l0'o'
the total number of British-born emlera,i'9
was 1928 Commenting upon this, a L'ohoon
paper says: while statesmen ana doctoi az
lamenting the gradual loss OF physicai lo"
among our people. as shown by the hecesei'. VI
reducing the height of army recruits " NV
feet three inches from five feet e1ght lloh'7'
which it was when the Queen cameto the III 49,
the East end of London is being lnunoateu y,
foreign paupers, filing up with human rloo,1
the tale of the population which IS peihs Wv
creased by the loss of the best and pures' "
our agricultural laborers and our country All
sans
A correspondent of the London 1t"'es
sends from Burmah an account OF the pe'io-
leum-felds of that country. dealing more es
pecially with those of the Yenangyouhg u's
trct, whence is drawn the luorlcatlhg hu n'i
known in commerce as Rangoon OIL Tue On
J
American for lighting purposes, from the lacI
that it burns with smoky fame lts G'iaiUy
does not affect its use as fuel, and IN Burlhaii
coal is both very dear and very inferior
Hitherto the oil has been worked by the rue
native methods; being drawn up Win loPo
and bucket from holes into when IL mas
rercolated during the night. 1t Is suesesIeu'
therefore, that the government shouio .ahe
steps to work mines in the scientific American
( in,
whether there is a sufficient supply 10 JUSTLY
a considerable outlay of capital.
The great frequency of fires in Hun
gary by which whole towns are destroyed anu
thousands made homeless is explained D! lie
character of buildings there. A Magyar Flilase
/ consists of two immense rows OF wooden NUS
! planted side by side, perhaps for mics lol
! some of these Alfold villages" contain a,oUoor
| $4,000 people. The tarred and painted Cottages
matched with straw and baked by the nerce
summer sun of the great plain, burn IKE I'LL
der when they once catch fire. 1t might De
worth while for the Magyar government 10
I distribute supply of chemical fire extlngulsh-
ers N their county towns; for water, on soilie
parts of this dry and treeless plain, only TO De
/ got from deep wells and artificial reservoirs,
and is precious commodity,
! There are not left in the world many
streets in which the houses date from the thir-
| teenth century Such a street is the poky
/ little thOrOughfare known as the Rue de lii
| Verge Noire at Brussels. which is about TO De
| entirely demolished. Originally it was a quay
on the Senne. and was called the Qual aux
| Tourbes. The more modern name was derived
from a statue of the Virgin on one OF the
houses. Several other tortuous streets IN the
neighborhood of the Halles Centrales and the
Church of St. Catherine are being pulled dowp
'odily to make way for broader and healthier
| thOroughfares.
Lord Dufferin and his suite had a mar
fow escape recently at Dehra Doom. in India
1t appears that swarm of irate bees ran
Imuck among the escort and attendants, and
routed them, horse and foot. Horses hoted
"ehicles were smashed, ladies and children
shrieked, and one poor charger belonging tC
an officer of the Ghoorkas was so badly stune
that it lay down, and ''smudge' fire had tx
be lighted round it before the bees were driver
off. The viceroy and suite had just passed
into the church, in order to attend service, be
fore the apian legions delivered the charge.
The board of directors of the South
eastern Railway Company,o of England, recently
sought to display their truly loyal enthusiasm
by subscribing 5000 toward jubilee fund
luSreupOH SOulC SUOCkuOluGTS Drought Tie cdSt
before the courts and a decision was rendered
that the directors had no right to spend an,
money except for purposes set forth in tn,
charter of the company. The idea that a boart
of railway directors cannot do as they plehs
with the money of the stockholders issan I'm
heard-of thing in this country.
In the recent German elections, al
though they were not allowed to hold an,
N.ass-meetings or to issue any addresses, tn
Socialists polled 763,12s votes, SO per cent. o
the total vote cast. The largest vote cast b,
any single party was 1,677,979 by the Nationa
Liberals.
The London policemen are becoming S,
dissatisfied with the poor wages paid then
that recently they held mass meeting in Hyd
Park, when they were addressed by Socialis
leaders.